It was a film of two halves-poor and even worse!

Rating: 1/10 (20 March 2006)

The premise for this film, although by no means innovative was inspiring. It was only sad that the delivery was so monumentally horrendous! There were more holes in it than a string vest and even with a late appearance by Eccleston, thoroughly unconvincing as an armed forces commander, could not possibly be salvaged. Instances like the fact that they claimed that they would have to wait until morning before it was safe to travel- then a few minutes later being outside a tower block in the dark!! They took their food from Budgens! Obviously Sainsburys and Tescos were not good enough for them ! And after four weeks all the fresh food was in absolutely pristine condition!!! The list of errors and weaknesses are endless but to its credit the opening scene was splendid and did give me hope that it might be sustained-but it was nothing but false expectation! Right from the outset when the main character regained consciousness after his road accident in a hospital there were encountered the initial germ of flaws-why was he stark naked on a NHS bed!!! Yet enough of all that, I could forgive the lack of accuracy in the first part of the film because of the excellent photography and succeeding in the naturally difficult task of capturing a deserted London-no mean feat! But the second half just lost the plot entirely! It was like I had started watching another film! It was incoherent and seemed as though the writer had just given up on it! Pity he hadn't done so much earlier! I gave it 1 only because I wasn't offered the choice of providing it with a big 0! If you are going to have the conception of an outstanding story, as this undoubtedly is, then at least see it through with clear insight. I appreciate it was made on a tight budget, and it shows, but the script could have been so much improved and not developed into something so contemptuously crass.